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Dr. John O’Dwyer Creaghe (1841 – February 19, 1920) was an Irish-born international anarchist whose name is most often associated with anarchism in England and Argentina, where he helped pioneer a movement of critical importance to Argentina and South American Labor history.
Creaghe became an anarchist after emigrating to Buenos Aires. It is believed he became an anarchist under the tutelage of Errico Malatesta. He published several anarchist journals and helped to form the Federacion Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA), the mighty anarcho-syndicalist union that took park in the events of the Tragic Week of January 1919, when the army fired into a crowd on strike killing about 1,000 persons in eight days. He was also involved in the Free School movement in Buenos Aires and was the director of the Rationalist School in Lujan.
He came to the US in Los Angeles and became active in Anarchist circles including supporting the Magonistas. He helped to produce Regeneracion and participated in the revolution in Baja Mexico. While the PLM occupied the house on Alpine and Yale, he set up a doctor’s office to assist working people with inexpensive medical assistance. He even was the attending doctor for the birth of Enrique Flores Magon’s child. Creaghe eventually moved to Washington where he died in utter poverty in February 1920. It is rumored that he died under a streetlamp with a gun in one hand and anarchist propaganda in the other.
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With The Poor People Of The Earth: A Biography Of Doctor John Creaghe of Sheffield & Buenos Aires by Alan O’Toole. Kate Sharpley Library: 2005, 36 pages
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